Friday, September 5, 2014

Wacky Sports

Hello everyone!
We hope you had a great summer. Ours was quite busy, but now we are getting back into the swing of the school year. With the fall semester comes fall sports. Here at Digital Diner, we believe there is a lot more to sports than the traditional football, baseball, basketball sorts of sports that are so popular in America. Instead, we are preparing for a semester of cross country running and crew (rowing). As fans we follow the Tour de France and the America's Cup. Still there are so many other interesting sports out there, and I'm not just talking about the X Games. In the past we've told you about a few good ones like indoor kite flying, planing and synchronized walking just to name a few. Well, apparently there are still plenty more good ones out there. Here are two more for you: Cycle ball, which is essentially soccer played on bicycles, and Combat juggling, which is... well... competitive juggling where players try to disrupt each other's juggling. Take a look at the videos below to see what it is all about. No, really, you need to see this. I think you'll be impressed.

Apparently Cycle Ball was an exhibition sport during the Coors Classic bicycle race back in 1984. At the time, I believe that the Coors Classic was the largest bicycle stage race in the US and there was a big push to make cycling a more popular sport, so these side show events were part of the act. Unfortunately, entertaining as it might be, Cycle Ball didn't catch on here, and the Coors Classic wasn't really around long enough to warrant the moniker "classic."

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